An article in last week’s Good Health repeated a claim, previously published elsewhere, that, according to official statistics, 27,000 people died with bedsores or infected wounds in 2010. We now understand that the correct figure is around 24,000 and that this relates to patients dying with bedsores or septicaemia rather than with bedsores or infected wounds.

[This story has not been corrected on the Mail web site]

Roman Holiday

A recent showbiz column said that the film Roman Holiday had been directed by Billy Wilder. In fact it was directed by William Wyler.

[There is also another story on the Mail site which made the same mistake in January. Neither story has been corrected]